Tash Sultana walks onto the stage inside Levi’s Lounge shoeless and begins playing “Jungle,” a slow-building, winding, reverberating track off her 2016 EP Notion. Playing a psychedelic symphony with her bare feet, Tash uses loop medals with wah-wah, glossolalia, and octave-lower bass effect to layer the hypnotic trance.

She moves on to “Notion,” a slow simmer that uses a strong drumline in-and-out marching under echoing vocals that explodes into a stunning guitar solo. It less than a 6-minute song on her EP that she stretches out over 13 mesmerizing minutes in her live, seemingly improvised set. The magic of her performance is the build, a sparse beginning that meanders into an all-out sonic torrent.

On-stage expressive powerhouse Tash Sultana is a one-woman band. She can sing, beatbox, play ten different instruments including bass, flute, drums, and the Arabic oud. In her performances, she creates sound loops that she layers to create the illusion of a full electronic band.

She couldn’t imagine doing anything else. “(In high school) I stole some fake ID off some chick and would hit up every club, pub, and venue who was doing open mic nights, or who would have me, and I finished school and I couldn’t get a job (and I didn’t want to),” she tells KFOG. “So I busked and here we are.”

Sultana is currently on playing across Australia and will continue her world tour through 2018.